"Thou bow'dst thy glorious head to none, fear'dst none." Or:— "Thou bowed thy glorious head to none, feared none." —Pollok cor.

"Thou lookst upon thy boy as though thou guess'd it." —Knowles cor.

"As once thou slept, while she to life was formed." —Milton cor.

"Who finds the partridge in the puttock's nest, But may imagine how the bird was killed?" —Shak. cor.

"Which might have well become the best of men." —Idem cor.

CHAPTER VII.—PARTICIPLES.

CORRECTIONS IN THE FORMS OF PARTICIPLES.

LESSON I.—IRREGULARS.

"Many of your readers have mistaken that passage."—Steele cor. "Had not my dog of a steward run away."—Addison cor. "None should be admitted, except he had broken his collarbone thrice."—Id. "We could not know what was written at twenty."—Waller cor. "I have written, thou hast written, he has written; we have written, you have written, they have written."—Ash cor. "As if God had spoken his last words there to his people."—Barclay cor. "I had like to have come in that ship myself."—Observer cor. "Our ships and vessels being driven out of the harbour by a storm."—Hutchinson cor. "He will endeavour to write as the ancient author would have written, had he written in the same language."—Bolingbroke cor. "When his doctrines grew too strong to be shaken by his enemies."—Atterbury cor. "The immortal mind that hath forsaken her mansion."—Milton cor. "Grease that's sweated (or sweat) from the murderer's gibbet, throw into the flame."—Shak. cor. "The court also was chidden (or chid) for allowing such questions to be put."—Stone cor. "He would have spoken."—Milton cor. "Words interwoven (or interweaved) with sighs found out their way."—Id. "Those kings and potentates who have strived (or striven.)"—Id. "That even Silence was taken."—Id. "And envious Darkness, ere they could return, had stolen them from me."—Id. "I have chosen this perfect man."—Id. "I shall scarcely think you have swum in a gondola."—Shak. cor. "The fragrant brier was woven (or weaved) between."—Dryden cor. "Then finish what you have begun."—Id. "But now the years a numerous train have run."—Pope cor. "Repeats your verses written (or writ) on glasses."—Prior cor. "Who by turns have risen."—Id. "Which from great authors I have taken."—Id. "Even there he should have fallen."—Id.

"The sun has ris'n, and gone to bed. Just as if Partridge were not dead."—Swift cor.

"And, though no marriage words are spoken, They part not till the ring is broken."—Swift cor.

LESSON II.—REGULARS.

"When the word is stripped of all the terminations."—Dr. Murray cor. "Forgive him, Tom; his head is cracked."—Swift cor. "For 'tis the sport, to have the engineer hoised (or hoisted) with his own petar."—Shak. cor. "As great as they are, I was nursed by their mother."—Swift cor. "If he should now be cried down since his change."—Id. "Dipped over head and ears—in debt."—Id. "We see the nation's credit cracked."—Id. "Because they find their pockets picked."—Id. "O what a pleasure mixed with pain!"—Id. "And only with her brother linked."—Id. "Because he ne'er a thought allowed, That might not be confessed."—Id. "My love to Sheelah is more firmly fixed."—Id. "The observations annexed to them will be intelligible."—Phil. Mus. cor. "Those eyes are always fixed on the general principles."—Id. "Laborious conjectures will be banished from our commentaries."—Id. "Tiridates was dethroned, and Phraates was reestablished, in his stead."—Id. "A Roman who was attached to Augustus."—Id. "Nor should I have spoken of it, unless Baxter had talked about two such."—Id. "And the reformers of language have generally rushed on."—Id. "Three centuries and a half had then elapsed since the date,"—Ib. "Of such criteria, as has been remarked already, there is an abundance."—Id. "The English have surpassed every other nation in their services."—Id. "The party addressed is next in dignity to the speaker."—Harris cor. "To which we are many times helped."—W. Walker cor. "But for him, I should have looked well enough to myself."—Id. "Why are you vexed, Lady? why do frown?"—Milton cor. "Obtruding false rules pranked in reason's garb."—Id. "But, like David equipped in Saul's armour, it is encumbered and oppressed."—Campbell cor.

"And when their merchants are blown up, and cracked, Whole towns are cast away in storms, and wrecked."—Butler cor.

LESSON III.—MIXED EXAMPLES.

"The lands are held in free and common soccage."—Trumbull cor. "A stroke is drawn under such words."—Cobbett's Gr., 1st Ed. "It is struck even, with a strickle."—W. Walker cor. "Whilst I was wandering, without any care, beyond my bounds."—Id. "When one would do something, unless hindered by something present."—B. Johnson cor. "It is used potentially, but not so as to be rendered by these signs."—Id. "Now who would dote upon things hurried down the stream thus fast?"—Collier cor. "Heaven hath timely tried their growth."—Milton cor. "O! ye mistook, ye should have snatched his wand."—Id. "Of true virgin here distressed."—Id. "So that they have at last come to be substituted in the stead of it."—Barclay cor. "Though ye have lain among the pots."—Bible cor. "And, lo! in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off."—Scott's Bible, and Alger's. "Brutus and Cassius Have ridden, (or rode,) like madmen, through the gates of Rome."—Shak. cor. "He shall be spit upon."—Bible cor. "And are not the countries so overflowed still situated between the tropics?"—Bentley. "Not tricked and frounced as she was wont, But kerchiefed in a comely cloud."—Milton cor. "To satisfy his rigour, Satisfied never."—Id. "With him there crucified."—Id. "Th' earth cumbered, and the wing'd air darked with plumes."—Id. "And now their way to Earth they had descried."—Id. "Not so thick swarmed once the soil Bedropped with blood of Gorgon."—Id. "And in a troubled sea of passion tossed."—Id. "The cause, alas! is quickly guessed."—Swift cor. "The kettle to the top was hoised, or hoisted."—Id. "In chains thy syllables are linked."—Id. "Rather than thus be overtopped, Would you not wish their laurels cropped."—Id. "The HYPHEN, or CONJOINER, is a little line drawn to connect words, or parts of words."—Cobbett cor. "In the other manners of dependence, this general rule is sometimes broken."—R. Johnson cor. "Some intransitive verbs may be rendered transitive by means of a preposition prefixed to them."—Grant cor. "Whoever now should place the accent on the first syllable of Valerius, would set every body a laughing."—J. Walker cor. "Being mocked, scourged, spit upon, and crucified."—Gurney cor.

"For rhyme in Greece or Rome was never known, Till barb'rous hordes those states had overthrown."—Roscommon cor.

"In my own Thames may I be drowned, If e'er I stoop beneath the crowned." Or thus:— "In my own Thames may I be drown'd dead, If e'er I stoop beneath a crown'd head."—Swift cor.

CHAPTER VIII.—ADVERBS.

CORRECTIONS RESPECTING THE FORMS OF ADVERBS.

"We can much more easily form the conception of a fierce combat."—Blair corrected. "When he was restored agreeably to the treaty, he was a perfect savage."—Webster cor. "How I shall acquit myself suitably to the importance of the trial."—Duncan cor. "Can any thing show your Holiness how unworthily you treat mankind?"—Spect. cor. "In what other, consistently with reason and common sense, can you go about to explain it to him?"—Lowth cor. "Agreeably to this rule, the short vowel Sheva has two characters."—Wilson cor. "We shall give a remarkably fine example of this figure."—See Blair's Rhet., p. 156. "All of which is most abominably false."—Barclay cor. "He heaped up great riches, but passed his time miserably."—Murray cor. "He is never satisfied with expressing any thing clearly and simply."—Dr. Blair cor. "Attentive only to exhibit his ideas clearly and exactly, he appears dry."—Id. "Such words as have the most liquids and vowels, glide the most softly." Or: "Where liquids and vowels most abound, the utterance is softest."—Id. "The simplest points, such as are most easily apprehended."—Id. "Too historical to be accounted a perfectly regular epic poem."—Id. "Putting after them the oblique case, agreeably to the French construction."—Priestley cor. "Where the train proceeds with an extremely slow pace."—Kames cor. "So as scarcely to give an appearance of succession."—Id. "That concord between sound and sense, which is perceived in some expressions, independently of artful pronunciation."—Id. "Cornaro had become very corpulent, previously to the adoption of his temperate habits."—Hitchcock cor. "Bread, which is a solid, and tolerably hard, substance."—Day cor. "To command every body that was not dressed as finely as himself."—Id. "Many of them have scarcely outlived their authors."—J. Ward cor. "Their labour, indeed, did not penetrate very deeply."—Wilson cor. "The people are miserably poor, and subsist on fish."—Hume cor. "A scale, which I took great pains, some years ago, to make."—Bucke cor. "There is no truth on earth better established than the truth of the Bible."—Taylor cor. "I know of no work more wanted than the one which Mr. Taylor has now furnished."—Dr. Nott cor. "And therefore their requests are unfrequent and reasonable."—Taylor cor. "Questions are more easily proposed, than answered rightly."—Dillwyn cor. "Often reflect on the advantages you possess, and on the source from which they are all derived."—Murray cor. "If there be no special rule which requires it to be put further forward."—Milnes cor. "The masculine and the neuter have the same dialect in all the numbers, especially when they end alike."—Id.

"And children are more busy in their play Than those that wiseliest pass their time away."—Butler cor.

CHAPTER IX.—CONJUNCTIONS.

CORRECTIONS IN THE USE OF CONJUNCTIONS.

"A Verb is so called from the Latin verbum, a word."—Bucke cor. "References are often marked by letters or figures."—Adam and Gould cor. (1.) "A Conjunction is a word which joins words or sentences together."—Lennie, Bullions and Brace, cor. (2.) "A Conjunction is used to connect words or sentences together."—R. C. Smith cor. (3.) "A Conjunction is used to connect words or sentences."—Maunder cor. (4.) "Conjunctions are words used to join words or sentences."—Wilcox cor. (5.) "A Conjunction is a word used to connect words or sentences."—M'Culloch, Hart, and Day, cor. (6.) "A Conjunction joins words or sentences together."—Macintosh and Hiley cor. (7.) "The Conjunction joins words or sentences together."—L. Murray cor. (8.) "Conjunctions connect words or sentences to each other."—Wright cor. (9.) "Conjunctions connect words or sentences."—Wells and Wilcox cor. (10.) "The conjunction is a part of speech, used to connect words or sentences."—Weld cor. (11.) "A conjunction is a word used to connect words or sentences together."—Fowler cor. (12.) "Connectives are particles that unite words or sentences in construction."—Webster cor. "English Grammar is miserably taught in our district schools; the teachers know little or nothing about it."—J. O. Taylor cor. "Lest, instead of preventing diseases, you draw them on."—Locke cor. "The definite article the is frequently applied to adverbs in the comparative or the superlative degree."—Murray et al. cor. "When nouns naturally neuter are assumed to be masculine or feminine."—Murray cor. "This form of the perfect tense represents an action as completely past, though often as done at no great distance of time, or at a time not specified."—Id. "The Copulative Conjunction serves to connect words or clauses, so as to continue a sentence, by expressing an addition, a supposition, a cause, or a consequence."—Id. "The Disjunctive Conjunction serves, not only to continue a sentence by connecting its parts, but also to express opposition of meaning, either real or nominal."—Id. "If we open the volumes of our divines, philosophers, historians, or artists, we shall find that they abound with all the terms necessary to communicate the observations and discoveries of their authors."—Id. "When a disjunctive conjunction occurs between a singular noun or pronoun and a plural one, the verb is made to agree with the plural noun or pronoun."—Murray et al. cor. "Pronouns must always agree with their antecedents, or the nouns for which they stand, in gender and number."—Murray cor. "Neuter verbs do not express action, and consequently do not govern nouns or pronouns."—Id. "And the auxiliary of the past imperfect as well as of the present tense."—Id. "If this rule should not appear to apply to every example that has been produced, or to others which might be cited."—Id. "An emphatical pause is made, after something of peculiar moment has been said, on which we desire to fix the hearer's attention."—Murray and Hart cor. "An imperfect[531] phrase contains no assertion, and does not amount to a proposition, or sentence."—Murray cor. "The word was in the mouth of every one, yet its meaning may still be a secret."—Id. "This word was in the mouth of every one, and yet, as to its precise and definite idea, this may still be a secret,"—Harris cor. "It cannot be otherwise, because the French prosody differs from that of every other European language."—Smollet cor. "So gradually that it may be engrafted on a subtonic."—Rush cor. "Where the Chelsea and Malden bridges now are." Or better: "Where the Chelsea or the Malden bridge now is."—Judge Parker cor. "Adverbs are words added to verbs, to participles, to adjectives, or to other adverbs."—R. C. Smith cor. "I could not have told you who the hermit was, or on what mountain he lived."—Bucke cor. "AM and BE (for they are the same verb) naturally, or in themselves, signify being."—Brightland cor. "Words are signs, either oral or written, by which we express our thoughts, or ideas."—Mrs. Bethune cor. "His fears will detect him, that he shall not escape."—Comly cor. "Whose is equally applicable to persons and to things"—Webster cor. "One negative destroys an other, so that two are equivalent to an affirmative."—Bullions cor.

"No sooner does he peep into the world, Than he has done his do."—Hudibras cor.

CHAPTER X.—PREPOSITIONS.

CORRECTIONS IN THE USE OF PREPOSITIONS.

"Nouns are often formed from participles."—L. Murray corrected. "What tenses are formed from the perfect participle?"—Ingersoll cor. "Which tense is formed from the present, or root of the verb?"—Id. "When a noun or a pronoun is placed before a participle, independently of the rest of the sentence."—Churchill's Gram., p. 348. "If the addition consists of two or more words."—Mur. et al. cor. "The infinitive mood is often made absolute, or used independently of the rest of the sentence."—Lowth's Gram., 80; Churchill's, 143; Bucke's, 96; Merchant's, 92. "For the great satisfaction of the reader, we shall present a variety of false constructions."—Murray cor. "For your satisfaction, I shall present you a variety of false constructions."— Ingersoll cor. "I shall here present [to] you a scale of derivation."— Bucke cor. "These two manners of representation in respect to number."—Lowth and Churchill cor. "There are certain adjectives which seem to be derived from verbs, without any variation."—Lowth cor. "Or disqualify us for receiving instruction or reproof from others."—Murray cor. "For being more studious than any other pupil in the school."— Id. "Misunderstanding the directions, we lost our way."—Id. "These people reduced the greater part of the island under their own power."— Id. "The principal accent distinguishes one syllable of a word from the rest."—Id. "Just numbers are in unison with the human mind."—Id. "We must accept of sound in stead of sense."—Id. "Also, in stead of consultation, he uses consult."—Priestley cor. "This ablative seems to be governed by a preposition understood."—W. Walker cor. "Lest my father hear of it, by some means or other."—Id. "And, besides, my wife would hear of it by some means."—Id. "For insisting on a requisition so odious to them."—Robertson cor. "Based on the great self-evident truths of liberty and equality."—Manual cor. "Very little knowledge of their nature is acquired from the spelling-book."—Murray cor. "They do not cut it off: except from a few words; as, due, duly, &c."—Id. "Whether passing at such time, or then finished."—Lowth cor. "It hath disgusted hundreds with that confession."—Barclay cor. "But they have egregiously fallen into that inconveniency."—Id. "For is not this, to set nature at work?"—Id. "And, surely, that which should set all its springs at work, is God."—Atterbury cor. "He could not end his treatise without a panegyrie on modern learning."—Temple cor. "These are entirely independent of the modulation of the voice."—J. Walker cor. "It is dear at a penny. It is cheap at twenty pounds."—W. Walker cor. "It will be despatched, on most occasions, without resting."—Locke cor. "Oh the pain, the bliss of dying!"—Pope. "When the objects or the facts are presented to him."—R. C. Smith cor. "I will now present you a synopsis."—Id. "The disjunctive conjunction connects words or sentences, and suggests an opposition of meaning, more or less direct."—Id. "I shall now present to you a few lines."—Bucke cor. "Common names, or substantives, are those which stand for things assorted."—Id. "Adjectives, in the English language, are not varied by genders, numbers, or cases; their only inflection is for the degrees of comparison."—Id. "Participles are [little more than] adjectives formed from verbs."—Id. "I do love to walk out on a fine summer evening."—Id. "Ellipsis, when applied to grammar, is the elegant omission of one or more words of a sentence."—Merchant cor. "The preposition to is generally required before verbs in the infinitive mood, but after the following verbs it is properly omitted; namely, bid, dare, feel, need, let, make, hear, see: as, 'He bid me do it;' not, 'He bid me to do it.'"—Id. "The infinitive sometimes follows than, for the latter term of a comparison; as, ['Murray should have known better than to write, and Merchant, better than to copy, the text here corrected, or the ambiguous example they appended to it.']"—Id. "Or, by prefixing the adverb more or less, for the comparative, and most or least, for the superlative."—Id. "A pronoun is a word used in stead of a noun."—Id. "From monosyllables, the comparative is regularly formed by adding r or er."—Perley cor. "He has particularly named these, in distinction from others."—Harris cor. "To revive the decaying taste for ancient literature."—Id. "He found the greatest difficulty in writing."—Hume cor.

"And the tear, that is wiped with a little address, May be followed perhaps by a smile."—Cowper, i, 216.

CHAPTER XI.—INTERJECTIONS.

CORRECTIONS IN THE USE OF INTERJECTIONS.

"Of chance or change, O let not man complain."—Beattie's Minstrel, B. ii, l. 1. "O thou persecutor! O ye hypocrites!"—Russell's Gram., p. 92. "O thou my voice inspire, Who touch'd Isaiah's hallow'd lips with fire!"—Pope's Messiah. "O happy we! surrounded by so many blessings!"—Merchant cor. "O thou who art so unmindful of thy duty!"—Id. "If I am wrong, O teach my heart To find that better way."—Murray's Reader, p. 248. "Heus! evocate huc Davum."—Ter. "Ho! call Davus out hither."—W. Walker cor. "It was represented by an analogy (O how inadequate!) which was borrowed from the ceremonies of paganism."—Murray cor. "O that Ishmael might live before thee!"—Friends' Bible, and Scott's. "And he said unto him, O let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak."—Alger's Bible, and Scott's. "And he said, O let not the Lord be angry."—Alger; Gen., xviii. 32. "O my Lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word."—Scott's Bible. "O Virtue! how amiable thou art!"—Murray's Gram., p. 128. "Alas! I fear for life."—See Ib. "Ah me! they little know How dearly I abide that boast so vain!"—See Bucke's Gram., p. 87. "O that I had digged myself a cave!"—Fletcher cor. "Oh, my good lord! thy comfort comes too late."—Shak. cor. "The vocative takes no article: it is distinguished thus: O Pedro! O Peter! O Dios! O God!"—Bucke cor. "Oho! But, the relative is always the same."—Cobbett cor. "All-hail, ye happy men!"—Jaudon cor. "O that I had wings like a dove!'—Scott's Bible. "O glorious hope! O bless'd abode!"—O. B. Peirce's Gram., p. 304. "Welcome friends! how joyous is your presence!"—T. Smith cor. "O blissful days!—but, ah! how soon ye pass!"—Parker and Fox cor.

"O golden days! O bright unvalued hours!— What bliss, did ye but know that bliss, were yours!"—Barbauld cor.

"Ah me! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron!"—Hudibras cor.



THE KEY.—PART III.—SYNTAX.

CHAPTER I.—SENTENCES.

The first chapter of Syntax, being appropriated to general views of this part of grammar, to an exhibition of its leading doctrines, and to the several forms of sentential analysis, with an application of its principal rules in parsing, contains no false grammar for correction; and has, of course, nothing to correspond to it, in this Key, except the title, which is here inserted for form's sake.

CHAPTER II.—ARTICLES.

CORRECTIONS UNDER THE NOTES TO RULE I.

UNDER NOTE I.—AN OR A.

"I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel."—Bible cor. "There is a harshness in the following sentences."—Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 152. "Indeed, such a one is not to be looked for."—Dr. Blair cor. "If each of you will be disposed to approve himself a useful citizen."—Id. "Land with them had acquired almost a European value."—Webster cor. "He endeavoured to find out a wholesome remedy."—Neef cor. "At no time have we attended a yearly meeting more to our own satisfaction."—The Friend cor. "Addison was not a humorist in character."—Kames cor. "Ah me! what a one was he!"—Lily cor. "He was such a one as I never saw before"—Id. "No man can be a good preacher, who is not a useful one."—Dr. Blair cor. "A usage which is too frequent with Mr. Addison."—Id. "Nobody joins the voice of a sheep with the shape of a horse."—Locke cor. "A universality seems to be aimed at by the omission of the article."—Priestley cor. "Architecture is a useful as well as a fine art."—Kames cor. "Because the same individual conjunctions do not preserve a uniform signification."— Nutting cor. "Such a work required the patience and assiduity of a hermit."—Johnson cor. "Resentment is a union of sorrow with malignity."—Id. "His bravery, we know, was a high courage of blasphemy."—Pope cor. "HYSSOP; an herb of bitter taste."—Pike cor.

"On each enervate string they taught the note To pant, or tremble through a eunuch's throat."—Pope cor.

UNDER NOTE II.—AN OR A WITH PLURALS.

"At a session of the court, in March, it was moved," &c.—Hutchinson cor. "I shall relate my conversations, of which I kept memoranda."—D. D'Ab. cor. "I took an other dictionary, and with a pair of scissors cut out, for instance, the word ABACUS."—A. B. Johnson cor. "A person very meet seemed he for the purpose, and about forty-five years old."—Gardiner cor. "And it came to pass, about eight days after these sayings."—Bible cor. "There were slain of them about three thousand men."—1 Macc. cor. "Until I had gained the top of these white mountains, which seemed other Alps of snow."—Addison cor. "To make them satisfactory amends for all the losses they had sustained."—Goldsmith cor. "As a first-fruit of many that shall be gathered."—Barclay cor. "It makes indeed a little amend, (or some amends,) by inciting us to oblige people."—Sheffield cor. "A large and lightsome back stairway (or flight of backstairs) leads up to an entry above."—Id. "Peace of mind is an abundant recompense for any sacrifices of interest."—Murray et al. cor. "With such a spirit, and such sentiments, were hostilities carried on."—Robertson cor. "In the midst of a thick wood, he had long lived a voluntary recluse."—G. B. "The flats look almost like a young forest."—Chronicle cor. "As we went on, the country for a little way improved, but scantily."—Freeman cor. "Whereby the Jews were permitted to return into their own country, after a captivity of seventy years at Babylon."—Rollin cor. "He did not go a great way into the country."—Gilbert cor.

"A large amend by fortune's hand is made, And the lost Punic blood is well repay'd."—Rowe cor.

UNDER NOTE III.—NOUNS CONNECTED.

"As where a landscape is conjoined with the music of birds, and the odour of flowers."—Kames cor. "The last order resembles the second in the mildness of its accent, and the softness of its pause."—Id. "Before the use of the loadstone, or the knowledge of the compass."—Dryden cor. "The perfect participle and the imperfect tense ought not to be confounded."—Murray cor. "In proportion as the taste of a poet or an orator becomes more refined."—Blair cor. "A situation can never be more intricate, so long as there is an angel, a devil, or a musician, to lend a helping hand."—Kames cor. "Avoid rude sports: an eye is soon lost, or a bone broken."—Inst., p. 262. "Not a word was uttered, nor a sign given."—Ib. "I despise not the doer, but the deed."—Ib. "For the sake of an easier pronunciation and a more agreeable sound."—Lowth cor. "The levity as well as the loquacity of the Greeks made them incapable of keeping up the true standard of history."— Bolingbroke cor.

UNDER NOTE IV.—ADJECTIVES CONNECTED.

"It is proper that the vowels be a long and a short one."—Murray cor. "Whether the person mentioned was seen by the speaker a long or a short time before."—Id. et al. "There are three genders; the masculine, the feminine, and the neuter."—Adam cor. "The numbers are two; the singular and the plural."—Id. et al. "The persons are three; the first, the second, and the third."—Iidem. "Nouns and pronouns have three cases; the nominative, the possessive, and the objective."— Comly and Ing. cor. "Verbs have five moods; namely, the infinitive, the indicative, the potential, the subjunctive, and the imperative."— Bullions et al. cor. "How many numbers have pronouns? Two, the singular and the plural."—Bradley cor. "To distinguish between an interrogative and an exclamatory sentence."—Murray et al. cor. "The first and the last of which are compound members."—Lowth cor. "In the last lecture, I treated of the concise and the diffuse, the nervous and the feeble manner."—Blair cor. "The passive and the neuter verbs I shall reserve for some future conversation."—Ingersoll cor. "There are two voices; the active and the passive."—Adam et al. cor. "WHOSE is rather the poetical than the regular genitive of WHICH."—Johnson cor. "To feel the force of a compound or a derivative word."—Town cor. "To preserve the distinctive uses of the copulative and the disjunctive conjunctions."—Murray et al. cor. "E has a long and a short sound in most languages."—Bicknell cor. "When the figurative and the literal sense are mixed and jumbled together."—Dr. Blair cor. "The Hebrew, with which the Canaanitish and the Phoenician stand in connexion."—Conant and Fowler cor. "The languages of Scandinavia proper, the Norwegian and the Swedish."—Fowler cor.

UNDER NOTE V.—ADJECTIVES CONNECTED.

"The path of truth is a plain and safe path."—Murray cor. "Directions for acquiring a just and happy elocution."—Kirkham cor. "Its leading object is, to adopt a correct and easy method."—Id. "How can it choose but wither in a long and sharp winter?"—Cowley cor. "Into a dark and distant unknown."—Dr. Chalmers cor. "When the bold and strong enslaved his fellow man."—Chazotte cor. "We now proceed to consider the things most essential to an accurate and perfect sentence."—Murray cor. "And hence arises a second and very considerable source of the improvement of taste."—Dr. Blair cor. "Novelty produces in the mind a vivid and agreeable emotion."—Id. "The deepest and bitterest feeling still is that of the separation."—Dr. M'Rie cor. "A great and good man looks beyond time."—See Brown's Inst., p. 263. "They made but a weak and ineffectual resistance."—Ib. "The light and worthless kernels will float."—Ib. "I rejoice that there is an other and better world."—Ib. "For he is determined to revise his work, and present to the public an other and better edition."—Kirkham cor. "He hoped that this title would secure to him an ample and independent authority."—L. Murray cor. et al. "There is, however, an other and more limited sense."—J. Q. Adams cor.

UNDER NOTE VI.—ARTICLES OR PLURALS.

"This distinction forms what are called the diffuse style and the concise."—Dr. Blair cor. "Two different modes of speaking, distinguished at first by the denominations of the Attic manner and the Asiatic."—Adams cor. "But the great design of uniting the Spanish and French monarchies under the former, was laid."—Bolingbroke cor. "In the solemn and poetic styles, it [do or did] is often rejected."—Allen cor. "They cannot be, at the same time, in both the objective case and the nominative." Or: "They cannot be, at the same time, in both the objective and the nominative case." Or: "They cannot be, at the same time, in the nominative case, and also in the objective." Or: "They cannot be, at the same time, in the nominative and objective cases."—Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 148. Or, better: "They cannot be, at the same time, in both cases, the nominative and the objective."—Murray et al. cor. "They are named the positive, comparative, and superlative degrees."—Smart cor. "Certain adverbs are capable of taking an inflection; namely, that of the comparative and superlative degrees."—Fowler cor. "In the subjunctive mood, the present and imperfect tenses often carry with them a future sense."—Murray et al. cor. "The imperfect, the perfect, the pluperfect, and the first-future tense, of this mood, are conjugated like the same tenses of the indicative."—Kirkham bettered. "What rules apply in parsing personal pronouns of the second and third persons?"—Id. "Nouns are sometimes in the nominative or the objective case after the neuter verb be, or after an active-intransitive or a passive verb." "The verb varies its ending in the singular, in order to agree with its nominative, in the first, second, and third persons."—Id. "They are identical in effect with the radical and the vanishing stress."—Rush cor. "In a sonnet, the first, the fourth, the fifth, and the eighth line, usually rhyme to one an other: so do the second, third, sixth, and seventh lines; the ninth, eleventh, and thirteenth lines; and the tenth, twelfth, and fourteenth lines."—Churchill cor. "The iron and golden ages are run; youth and manhood are departed."—Wright cor. "If, as you say, the iron and the golden age are past, the youth and the manhood of the world."—Id. "An Exposition of the Old and New Testaments."—Henry cor. "The names and order of the books of the Old and the New Testament."—Bible cor. "In the second and third persons of that tense."—Murray cor. "And who still unites in himself the human and the divine nature."—Gurney cor. "Among whom arose the Italian, Spanish, French, and English languages."—Murray cor. "Whence arise these two numbers, the singular and the plural."—Burn cor.

UNDER NOTE VII.—CORRESPONDENT TERMS.

"Neither the definitions nor the examples are entirely the same as his."—Ward cor. "Because it makes a discordance between the thought and the expression."—Kames cor. "Between the adjective and the following substantive."—Id. "Thus Athens became both the repository and the nursery of learning."—Chazotte cor. "But the French pilfered from both the Greek and the Latin."—Id. "He shows that Christ is both the power and the wisdom of God."—The Friend cor. "That he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living."—Bible cor. "This is neither the obvious nor the grammatical meaning of his words."—Blair cor. "Sometimes both the accusative and the infinitive are understood."—Adam and Gould cor. "In some cases, we can use either the nominative or the accusative, promiscuously."—Iidem. "Both the former and the latter substantive are sometimes to be understood."—Iidem. "Many of which have escaped both the commentator and the poet himself."—Pope cor. "The verbs MUST and OUGHT, have both a present and a past signification."—L. Murray cor. "How shall we distinguish between the friends and the enemies of the government?"—Dr. Webster cor. "Both the ecclesiastical and the secular powers concurred in those measures."—Dr. Campbell cor. "As the period has a beginning and an end within itself, it implies an inflection."—J. Q. Adams cor. "Such as ought to subsist between a principal and an accessory."—Ld. Kames cor.

UNDER NOTE VIII.—CORRESPONDENCE PECULIAR.

"When both the upward and the downward slide occur in the sound of one syllable, they are called a CIRCUMFLEX, or WAVE."—Kirkham cor. "The word THAT is used both in the nominative and in the objective case."—Sanborn cor. "But in all the other moods and tenses, both of the active and of the passive voice [the verbs] are conjugated at large."—Murray cor. "Some writers on grammar, admitting the second-future tense into the indicative mood, reject it from the subjunctive."—Id. "After the same conjunction, to use both the indicative and the subjunctive mood in the same sentence, and under the same circumstances, seems to be a great impropriety."—Id. "The true distinction between the subjunctive and the indicative mood in this tense."—Id. "I doubt of his capacity to teach either the French or the English language."—Chazotte cor. "It is as necessary to make a distinction between the active-transitive and the active-intransitive verb, as between the active and the passive."—Nixon cor.

UNDER NOTE IX.—A SERIES OF TERMS.

"As comprehending the terms uttered by the artist, the mechanic, and the husbandman."—Chazotte cor. "They may be divided into four classes; the Humanists, the Philanthropists, the Pestalozzians, and the Productives."—Smith cor. "Verbs have six tenses; the present, the imperfect, the perfect, the pluperfect, the first-future, and the second-future."—Murray et al. cor. "Is it an irregular neuter verb [from be, was, being, been; found in] the indicative mood, present tense, third person, and singular number."—Murray cor. "SHOULD GIVE is an irregular active-transitive verb [from give, gave, given, giving; found] in the potential mood, imperfect tense, first person, and plural number."—Id. "US is a personal pronoun, of the first person, plural number, masculine gender, and objective case."—Id. "THEM is a personal pronoun, of the third person, plural number, masculine gender, and objective case."—Id. "It is surprising that the Jewish critics, with all their skill in dots, points, and accents, never had the ingenuity to invent a point of interrogation, a point of admiration, or a parenthesis."—Dr. Wilson cor. "The fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth verses." Or: "The fifth, the sixth, the seventh, and the eighth verse."—O. B. Peirce cor. "Substitutes have three persons; the First, the Second, and the Third."—Id. "JOHN'S is a proper noun, of the third person, singular number, masculine gender, and possessive case: and is governed by 'WIFE,' according to Rule" [4th, which says, &c.]—Smith cor. "Nouns, in the English language, have three cases; the nominative, the possessive, and the objective."—Bar. and Alex. cor. "The potential mood has four tenses; viz., the present, the imperfect, the perfect, and the pluperfect."—Ingersoll cor.

"Where Science, Law, and Liberty depend, And own the patron, patriot, and friend."—Savage cor.

UNDER NOTE X.—SPECIES AND GENUS.

"The pronoun is a part of speech[532] put for the noun."—Paul's Ac. cor. "The verb is a part of speech declined with mood and tense."—Id. "The participle is a part of speech derived from the verb."—Id. "The adverb is a part of speech joined to verbs, [participles, adjectives, or other adverbs,] to declare their signification."—Id. "The conjunction is a part of speech that joins words or sentences together."—Id. "The preposition is a part of speech most commonly set before other parts."—Id. "The interjection is a part of speech which betokens a sudden emotion or passion of the mind."—Id. "The enigma, or riddle, is also a species of allegory."—Blair and Murray cor. "We may take from the Scriptures a very fine example of the allegory."—Iidem. "And thus have you exhibited a sort of sketch of art."—Harris cor. "We may 'imagine a subtle kind of reasoning,' as Mr. Harris acutely observes."—Churchill cor. "But, before entering on these, I shall give one instance of metaphor, very beautiful, (or, one very beautiful instance of metaphor,) that I may show the figure to full advantage."—Blair cor. "Aristotle, in his Poetics, uses metaphor in this extended sense, for any figurative meaning imposed upon a word; as the whole put for a part, or a part for the whole; a species for the genus, or the genus for a species."—Id. "It shows what kind of apple it is of which we are speaking."—Kirkham cor. "Cleon was an other sort of man."—Goldsmith cor. "To keep off his right wing, as a kind of reserved body."—Id. "This part of speech is called the verb."—Mack cor. "What sort of thing is it?"—Hiley cor. "What sort of charm do they possess?"—Bullions cor.

"Dear Welsted, mark, in dirty hole, That painful animal, the mole."—Dunciad cor.

UNDER NOTE XI.—ARTICLES NOT REQUISITE.

"Either thou or the boys were in fault."—Comly cor. "It may, at first view, appear to be too general."—Murray et al. cor. "When the verb has reference to future time."—Iidem. "No; they are the language of imagination, rather than of passion."—Blair cor. "The dislike of English Grammar, which has so generally prevailed, can be attributed only to the intricacy of [our] syntax."—Russell cor. "Is that ornament in good taste?"—Kames cor. "There are not many fountains in good taste." Or: "Not many fountains are [ornamented] in good taste."—Id. "And I persecuted this way unto death."—Bible cor. "The sense of feeling can, indeed, give us a notion of extension."—Addison, Spect., No. 411. "The distributive adjectives, each, every, either, agree with nouns, pronouns, or verbs, of the singular number only."—Murray cor. "Expressing by one word, what might, by a circumlocution, be resolved into two or more words belonging to other parts of speech."—Blair cor. "By certain muscles which operate [in harmony, and] all at the same time."—Murray cor. "It is sufficient here to have observed thus much in general concerning them."—Campbell cor. "Nothing disgusts us sooner than empty pomp of language."—Murray cor.

UNDER NOTE XII.—TITLES AND NAMES.

"He is entitled to the appellation of gentleman."—G. Brown. "Cromwell assumed the title of Protector"—Id. "Her father is honoured with the title of Earl."—Id. "The chief magistrate is styled President."— Id. "The highest title in the state is that of Governor."—Id. "That boy is known by the name of Idler."—Murray cor. "The one styled Mufti, is the head of the ministers of law and religion."—Balbi cor. "Ranging all that possessed them under one class, he called that whole class tree."—Blair cor. "For oak, pine, and ash, were names of whole classes of objects."—Id. "It is of little importance whether we give to some particular mode of expression the name of trope, or of figure."—Id. "The collision of a vowel with itself is the most ungracious of all combinations, and has been doomed to peculiar reprobation under the name of hiatus."—Adams cor. "We hesitate to determine, whether Tyrant alone is the nominative, or whether the nominative includes the word Spy."—Cobbett cor. "Hence originated the customary abbreviation of twelve months into twelvemonth; of seven nights into sennight; of fourteen nights into fortnight."—Webster cor.

UNDER NOTE XIII.—COMPARISONS AND ALTERNATIVES.

"He is a better writer than reader."—W. Allen. "He was an abler mathematician than linguist."—Id. "I should rather have an orange than an apple."—G. Brown. "He was no less able as a negotiator, than courageous as a warrior."—Smollett cor. "In an epic poem, we pardon many negligences that would not be permitted in a sonnet or an epigram."—Kames cor. "That figure is a sphere, globe, or ball."—Churchill's Gram., p. 357.

UNDER NOTE XIV.—ANTECEDENTS TO WHO OR WHICH.

"The carriages which were formerly in use, were very clumsy."—Key to Inst. "The place is not mentioned by the geographers who wrote at that time."—Ib. "Those questions which a person puts to himself in contemplation, ought to be terminated with points of interrogation."— Mur. et al. cor. "The work is designed for the use of those persons who may think it merits a place in their libraries."—Mur. cor. "That those who think confusedly, should express themselves obscurely, is not to be wondered at."—Id. "Those grammarians who limit the number to two, or three, do not reflect."—Id. "The substantives which end in ian, are those that signify profession." Or: "Those substantives which end in ian, are such as signify profession."—Id. "To these may be added those verbs which, among the poets, usually govern the dative."—Adam and Gould cor. "The consonants are those letters which cannot be sounded without the aid of a vowel."—Bucke cor. "To employ the curiosity of persons skilled in grammar:"—"of those who are skilled in grammar:"—"of persons that are skilled in grammar:"—"of such persons as are skilled in grammar:" or—"of those persons who are skilled in grammar."—L. Murray cor. "This rule refers only to those nouns and pronouns which have the same bearing, or relation."—Id. "So that the things which are seen, were not made of things that do appear."—Bible cor. "Man is an imitative creature; he may utter again the sounds which he has heard."—Dr. Wilson cor. "But those men whose business is wholly domestic, have little or no use for any language but their own."—Dr. Webster cor.

UNDER NOTE XV.—PARTICIPIAL NOUNS.

"Great benefit may be reaped from the reading of histories."—Sewel cor. "And some attempts were made towards the writing of history."—Bolingbroke cor. "It is an invading of the priest's office, for any other to offer it"—Leslie cor. "And thus far of the forming of verbs."—W. Walker cor. "And without the shedding of blood there is no remission."—Bible cor. "For the making of measures, we have the best method here in England."—Printer's Gram. cor. "This is really both an admitting and a denying at once."—Butler cor. "And hence the origin of the making of parliaments."—Dr. Brown cor. "Next thou objectest, that the having of saving light and grace presupposes conversion. But that I deny: for, on the contrary, conversion presupposes the having of light and grace."—Barclay cor. "They cried down the wearing of rings and other superfluities, as we do."—Id. "Whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning, of the plaiting of the hair, and of the wearing of gold, or of the putting-on of apparel."—Bible cor. "In the spelling of derivative words, the primitives must be kept whole."—Brit. Gram. and Buchanan's cor. "And the princes offered for the dedicating of the altar."—Numb. cor. "Boasting is not only a telling of lies, but also of many unseemly truths."—Sheffield cor. "We freely confess that the forbearing of prayer in the wicked is sinful."—Barclay cor. "For the revealing of a secret, there is no remedy."—G. Brown. "He turned all his thoughts to the composing of laws for the good of the State."—Rollin cor.

UNDER NOTE XVI.—PARTICIPLES, NOT NOUNS.

"It is salvation to be kept from falling into a pit, as truly as to be taken out of it after falling in."—Barclay cor. "For in receiving and embracing the testimony of truth, they felt their souls eased."—Id. "True regularity does not consist in having but a single rule, and forcing every thing to conform to it."—Phil. Museum cor. "To the man of the world, this sound of glad tidings appears only an idle tale, and not worth attending to."—Say cor. "To be the deliverer of the captive Jews, by ordering their temple to be rebuilt," &c.—Rollin cor. "And for preserving them from being defiled."—Discip. cor. "A wise man will forbear to show any excellence in trifles."—Kames cor. "Hirsutus had no other reason for valuing a book."—Johnson, and Wright, cor. "To being heard with satisfaction, it is necessary that the speaker should deliver himself with ease." Perhaps better: "To be heard, &c." Or: "In order to be heard, &c."—Sheridan cor. "And, to the end of being well heard and clearly understood, a good and distinct articulation contributes more, than can even the greatest power of voice."—Id.

"Potential purports, having power or will; As, If you would improve, you should be still."—Tobitt cor.

UNDER NOTE XVII.—VARIOUS ERRORS.

"For the same reason, a neuter verb cannot become passive."—Lowth cor. "A period is a whole sentence complete in itself."—Id. "A colon, or member, is a chief constructive part, or the greatest division, of a sentence."—Id. "A semicolon, or half-member, is a smaller constructive part, or a subdivision, of a sentence or of a member."—Id. "A sentence or a member is again subdivided into commas, or segments."—Id. "The first error that I would mention is, too general an attention to the dead languages, with a neglect of our own tongue."—Webster cor. "One third of the importations would supply the demands of the people."—Id. "And especially in a grave style."—Murray's Gram., i, 178. "By too eager a pursuit, he ran a great risk of being disappointed."—Murray cor. "The letters are divided into vowels and consonants."—Mur. et al. cor. "The consonants are divided into mutes and semivowels."—Iidem. "The first of these forms is the most agreeable to the English idiom."—Murray cor. "If they gain, it is at too dear a rate."—Barclay cor. "A pronoun is a word used in stead of a noun, to prevent too frequent a repetition of it."—Maunder cor. "This vulgar error might perhaps arise from too partial a fondness for the Latin."—Ash cor. "The groans which too heavy a load extorts from her."—Hitchcock cor. "The numbers of a verb are, of course, the singular and the plural."—Bucke cor. "To brook no meanness, and to stoop to no dissimulation, are indications of a great mind."—Murray cor. "This mode of expression rather suits the familiar than the grave style."—Id. "This use of the word best suits a familiar and low style."—Priestley cor. "According to the nature of the composition, the one or the other may be predominant."—Blair cor. "Yet the commonness of such sentences prevents in a great measure too early an expectation of the end."—Campbell cor. "A eulogy or a philippic may be pronounced by an individual of one nation upon a subject of an other."—J. Q. Adams cor. "A French sermon is, for the most part, a warm animated exhortation."—Blair cor. "I do not envy those who think slavery no very pitiable lot."—Channing cor. "The auxiliary and the principal united constitute a tense."—Murray cor. "There are some verbs which are defective with respect to the persons."—Id. "In youth, habits of industry are the most easily acquired."—Id. "The apostrophe (') is used in place of a letter left out."—Bullions cor.

CHAPTER III.—CASES, OR NOUNS.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE II; OF NOMINATIVES.

"The whole need not a physician, but they that are sick."—Bunyan cor. "He will in no wise cast out whosoever cometh unto him." Better: "He will in no wise cast out any that come unto him."—Hall cor. "He feared the enemy might fall upon his men, who, he saw, were off their guard."—Hutchinson cor. "Whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain."—Matt., v, 41. "The ideas of the author have been conversant with the faults of other writers."—Swift cor. "You are a much greater loser than I, by his death." Or: "Thou art a much greater loser by his death than I."—Id. "Such peccadilloes pass with him for pious frauds."—Barclay cor. "In whom I am nearly concerned, and who, I know, would be very apt to justify my whole procedure."—Id. "Do not think such a man as I contemptible for my garb."—Addison cor. "His wealth and he bid adieu to each other."—Priestley cor. "So that, 'He is greater than I,' will be more grammatical than, 'He is greater than me.'"—Id. "The Jesuits had more interests at court than he."—Id. and Smollett cor. "Tell the Cardinal that I understand poetry better than he."—Iid. "An inhabitant of Crim Tartary was far more happy than he."—Iid. "My father and he have been very intimate since."—Fair Am. cor. "Who was the agent, and who, the object struck or kissed?"—Mrs. Bethune cor. "To find the person who, he imagined, was concealed there."—Kirkham cor. "He offered a great recompense to whosoever would help him." Better: "He offered a great recompense to any one who would help him."—Hume and Pr. cor. "They would be under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of whosoever (or any one who) might exercise the right of judgement."—Haynes cor. "They had promised to accept whosoever (or any one who) should be born in Wales."—Croker cor. "We sorrow not as they that have no hope."—Maturin cor. "If he suffers, he suffers as they that have no hope."—Id. "We acknowledge that he, and he only, hath been our peacemaker."—Gratton cor. "And what can be better than he that made it?"—Jenks cor. "None of his school-fellows is more beloved than he."—Cooper cor. "Solomon, who was wiser than they all."—Watson cor. "Those who the Jews thought were the last to be saved, first entered the kingdom of God."—Tract cor. "A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than both."—Bible cor. "A man of business, in good company, is hardly more insupportable, than she whom they call a notable woman."—Steele cor. "The king of the Sarmatians, who we may imagine was no small prince, restored to him a hundred thousand Roman prisoners."—Life of Anton. cor. "Such notions would be avowed at this time by none but rosicrucians, and fanatics as mad as they."—Campbell's Rhet., p. 203. "Unless, as I said, Messieurs, you are the masters, and not I."—Hall cor. "We had drawn up against peaceable travellers, who must have been as glad as we to escape."—Burnes cor. "Stimulated, in turn, by their approbation and that of better judges than they, she turned to their literature with redoubled energy."—Quarterly Rev. cor. "I know not who else are expected."—Scott cor. "He is great, but truth is greater than we all." Or: "He is great, but truth is greater than any of us."—H. Mann cor.. "He I accuse has entered." Or, by ellipsis of the antecedent, thus: "Whom I accuse has entered."—Fowler cor.; also Shakspeare.

"Scotland and thou did each in other live."—Dryden cor.

"We are alone; here's none but thou and I."—Shak. cor.

"I rather would, my heart might feel your love, Than my unpleas'd eye see your courtesy."—Shak. cor.

"Tell me, in sadness, who is she you love?"—Shak. cor.

"Better leave undone, than by our deeds acquire Too high a fame, when he we serve's away."—Shak. cor.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE III; OF APPOSITION.

"Now, therefore, come thou, let us make a covenant, thee and me."—Bible cor. "Now, therefore, come thou, we will make a covenant, thou and I."—Variation corrected. "The word came not to Esau, the hunter, that stayed not at home; but to Jacob, the plain man, him that dwelt in tents."—Penn cor. "Not to every man, but to the man of God, (i.e.,) him that is led by the spirit of God."—Barclay cor. "For, admitting God to be a creditor, or him to whom the debt should be paid, and Christ him that satisfies or pays it on behalf of man the debtor, this question will arise, whether he paid that debt as God, or man, or both?"—Penn cor. "This Lord Jesus Christ, the heavenly Man, the Emmanuel, God with us, we own and believe in: him whom the high priests raged against," &c.—Fox cor. "Christ, and He crucified, was the Alpha and Omega of all his addresses, the fountain and foundation of his hope and trust."—Exp. cor. "Christ, and He crucified, is the head, and the only head, of the church."—Denison cor. "But if Christ, and He crucified, is the burden of the ministry, such disastrous results are all avoided."—Id. "He never let fall the least intimation, that himself, or any other person whosoever, was the object of worship."—View cor. "Let the elders that rule well, be counted worthy of double honour, especially them who labour in the word and doctrine."—Bible cor. "Our Shepherd, he who is styled King of saints, will assuredly give his saints the victory."—Sermon cor. "It may seem odd, to talk of us subscribers."—Fowle cor. "And they shall have none to bury them: they, their wives, nor their sons, nor[533] their daughters; for I will pour their wickedness upon them."—Bible cor. "Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellow-soldier, but your messenger, and him that ministered to my wants."—Bible cor.

"Amidst the tumult of the routed train, The sons of false Antimachus were slain; Him who for bribes his faithless counsels sold, And voted Helen's stay for Paris' gold."—Pope cor.

"See the vile King his iron sceptre bear— His only praise attends the pious heir; Him in whose soul the virtues all conspire, The best good son, from the worst wicked sire."—Lowth cor.

"Then from thy lips poured forth a joyful song To thy Redeemer!—yea, it poured along In most melodious energy of praise, To God, the Saviour, him of ancient days."—Arm Chair cor.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE IV; OF POSSESSIVES.

UNDER NOTE I.—THE POSSESSIVE FORM.

"Man's chief good is an upright mind."—Key to Inst. "The translator of Mallet's History has the following note."—Webster cor. "The act, while it gave five years' full pay to the officers, allowed but one year's pay to the privates."—Id. "For the study of English is preceded by several years' attention to Latin and Greek."—Id. "The first, the Court-Baron, is the freeholders' or freemen's court."—Coke cor. "I affirm that Vaugelas's definition labours under an essential defect."—Campbell cor.; and also Murray. "There is a chorus in Aristophanes's plays."—Blair cor. "It denotes the same perception in my mind as in theirs."—Duncan cor. "This afterwards enabled him to read Hickes's Saxon Grammar."—Life of Dr. Mur. cor. "I will not do it for ten's sake."—Ash cor. Or: "I will not destroy it for ten's sake."—Gen., xviii, 32. "I arose, and asked if those charming infants were hers."—Werter cor. "They divide their time between milliners' shops and the taverns."—Dr. Brown cor. "The angels' adoring of Adam is also mentioned in the Talmud."—Sale cor. "Quarrels arose from the winners' insulting of those who lost."—Id. "The vacancy occasioned by Mr. Adams's resignation."—Adv. to Adams's Rhet. cor. "Read, for instance, Junius's address, commonly called his Letter to the King."—Adams cor. "A perpetual struggle against the tide of Hortensius's influence."—Id. "Which, for distinction's sake, I shall put down severally."—R. Johnson cor. "The fifth case is in a clause signifying the matter of one's fear."—Id. "And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field."—Alger cor. "Arise for thy servants' help, and redeem them for thy mercy's sake."—Jenks cor. "Shall not their cattle, their substance, and every beast of theirs, be ours?"—COM. BIBLE: Gen., xxxiv, 23. "Its regular plural, bullaces, is used by Bacon."—Churchill cor. "Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's house."—Scott cor. "Behold, they that wear soft clothing, are in kings' houses."—Alger's Bible. "Then Jethro, Moses's father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses's wife, and her two sons; and Jethro, Moses's father-in-law, came, with his sons and his wife, unto Moses."—Scott's Bible. "King James's translators merely revised former translations."—Frazee cor. "May they be like corn on houses' tops."—White cor.

"And for his Maker's image' sake exempt."—Milton cor.

"By all the fame acquired in ten years' war."—Rowe cor.

"Nor glad vile poets with true critics' gore."—Pope cor.

"Man only of a softer mold is made, Not for his fellows' ruin, but their aid."—Dryden cor.

UNDER NOTE II.—POSSESSIVES CONNECTED.

"It was necessary to have both the physician's and the surgeon's advice."—L. Murray's False Syntax, Rule 10. "This outside fashionableness of the tailor's or the tirewoman's making."—Locke cor. "Some pretending to be of Paul's party, others of Apollos's, others of Cephas's, and others, (pretending yet higher,) to be of Christ's."—Wood cor. "Nor is it less certain, that Spenser and Milton's spelling agrees better with our pronunciation."—Phil. Museum cor. "Law's, Edwards's, and Watts's Survey of the Divine Dispensations." Or thus: "Law, Edwards, and Watts's, Surveys of the Divine Dispensations."—Burgh cor. "And who was Enoch's Saviour, and the prophets'?"—Bayly cor. "Without any impediment but his own, his parents', or his guardian's will."—Journal corrected. "James relieves neither the boy's nor the girl's distress."—Nixon cor. "John regards neither the master's nor the pupil's advantage."—Id. "You reward neither the man's nor the woman's labours."—Id. "She examines neither James's nor John's conduct."—Id. "Thou pitiest neither the servant's nor the master's injuries."—Id. "We promote England's or Ireland's happiness."—Id. "Were Cain's and Abel's occupation the same?"—G. Brown. "Were Cain and Abel's occupations the same?"—Id. "What was Simon and Andrew's employment?"—Id. "Till he can read for himself Sanctius's Minerva with Scioppius's and Perizonius's Notes."—Locke cor.

"And love and friendship's finely-pointed dart Falls blunted from each indurated heart." Or:—

"And love's and friendship's finely-pointed dart Fall blunted from each indurated heart."—Goldsmith cor.

UNDER NOTE III.—CHOICE OF FORMS.

"But some degree of trouble is the portion of all men."—L. Murray et al. cor. "With the names of his father and mother upon the blank leaf."—Abbott cor. "The general, in the name of the army, published a declaration."—Hume cor. "The vote of the Commons."—Id. "The House of Lords."—Id. "A collection of the faults of writers;"—or, "A collection of literary faults."—Swift cor. "After ten years of wars."—Id. "Professing his detestation of such practices as those of his predecessors."—Pope cor. "By that time I shall have ended my year of office."—W. Walker cor. "For the sake of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip."—Bible and Mur. cor. "I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they may also obtain salvation."—Bibles cor. "He was heir to the son of Louis the Sixteenth."—W. Allen. "The throne we honour is the people's choice."—Rolla. "An account of the proceedings of Alexander's court."—Inst. "An excellent tutor for the child of a person of fashion!"—Gil Blas cor. "It is curious enough, that this sentence of the Bishop's is, itself, ungrammatical."—Cobbett cor. "The troops broke into the palace of the Emperor Leopold."—Nixon cor. "The meeting was called by desire of Eldon the Judge."—Id. "The occupation of Peter, John, and Andrew, was that of fishermen."—Murray's Key, R. 10. "The debility of the venerable president of the Royal Academy, has lately increased."—Maunder cor.

UNDER NOTE IV.—NOUNS WITH POSSESSIVES PLURAL.

"God hath not given us our reason to no purpose."—Barclay cor. "For our sake, no doubt, this is written."—Bible cor. "Are not health and strength of body desirable for their own sake?"—Harris and Murray cor. "Some sailors who were boiling their dinner upon the shore."—Day cor. "And they, in their turn, were subdued by others."—Pinnock cor. "Industry on our part is not superseded by God's grace."—Arrowsmith cor. "Their health perhaps may be pretty well secured."—Locke cor. "Though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor."—See 2 Cor., viii, 9. "It were to be wished, his correctors had been as wise on their part."—Harris cor. "The Arabs are commended by the ancients for being most exact to their word, and respctful to their kindred."—Sale cor. "That is, as a reward of some exertion on our part."—Gurney cor. "So that it went ill with Moses for their sake."—Ps. cor. "All liars shall have their part in the burning lake."—Watts cor. "For our own sake as well as for thine."—Pref. to Waller cor. "By discovering their ability to detect and amend errors."—L. Murray cor.

"This world I do renounce; and, in your sight, Shake patiently my great affliction off."—Shak. cor.

"If your relenting anger yield to treat, Pompey and thou, in safety, here may meet."—Rowe cor.

UNDER NOTE V.—POSSESSIVES WITH PARTICIPLES.

"This will encourage him to proceed without acquiring the prejudice."—Smith cor. "And the notice which they give of an action as being completed or not completed."—L. Mur. et al. cor. "Some obstacle, or impediment, that prevents it from taking place."—Priestley and A. Mur. cor. "They have apostolical authority for so frequently urging the seeking of the Spirit."—The Friend cor. "Here then is a wide field for reason to exert its powers in relation to the objects of taste."—Dr. Blair cor. "Now this they derive altogether from their greater capacity of imitation and description."—Id. "This is one clear reason why they paid a greater attention to that construction."—Id. "The dialogue part had also a modulation of its own, which was capable of being set to notes."—Id. "Why are we so often frigid and unpersuasive in public discourse?"—Id. "Which is only a preparation for leading his forces directly upon us."—Id. "The nonsense about which, as relating to things only, and having no declension, needs no refutation."—Fowle cor. "Who, upon breaking it open, found nothing but the following inscription."—Rollin cor. "A prince will quickly have reason to repent of having exalted one person so high."—Id. "Notwithstanding it is the immediate subject of his discourse."—Churchill cor. "With our definition of it, as being synonymous with time."—Booth cor. "It will considerably increase our danger of being deceived."—Campbell cor. "His beauties can never be mentioned without suggesting his blemishes also."—Dr. Blair cor. "No example has ever been adduced, of a man conscientiously approving an action, because of its badness." Or:—"of a man who conscientiously approved of an action because of its badness."—Gurney cor. "The last episode, of the angel showing to Adam the fate of his posterity, is happily imagined."—Dr. Blair cor. "And the news came to my son, that he and the bride were in Dublin."—M. Edgeworth cor. "There is no room for the mind to exert any great effort."—Dr. Blair cor. "One would imagine, that these critics never so much as heard that Homer wrote first."—Pope cor. "Condemn the book, for not being a geography;" or,—"because it is not a geography."—Peirce cor. "There will be in many words a transition from being the figurative to being the proper signs of certain ideas."—Campbell cor. "The doctrine that the Pope is the only source of ecclesiastical power."—Rel. World cor. "This was the more expedient, because the work was designed for the benefit of private learners."—L. Murray cor. "This was done, because the Grammar, being already in type, did not admit of enlargement."—Id.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE V; OF OBJECTIVES.

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.—THE OBJECTIVE FORM.

"Whom should I meet the other day but my old friend!"—Spect. cor. "Let not him boast that puts on his armour, but him that takes it off."—Barclay cor. "Let none touch it, but them who are clean."—Sale cor. "Let the sea roar, and the fullness thereof; the world, and them that dwell therein."—Ps. cor. "Pray be private, and careful whom you trust."—Mrs. Goffe cor. "How shall the people know whom to entrust with their property and their liberties?"—J. O. Taylor cor. "The chaplain entreated my comrade and me to dress as well as possible."—World cor. "And him that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out."—John, vi, 37. "Whom, during this preparation, they constantly and solemnly invoke."—Hope of Is. cor. "Whoever or whatever owes us, is Debtor; and whomever or whatever we owe, is Creditor."—Marsh cor. "Declaring the curricle was his, and he should have in it whom he chose."—A. Ross cor. "The fact is, Burke is the only one of all the host of brilliant contemporaries, whom we can rank as a first-rate orator."—Knickerb. cor. "Thus you see, how naturally the Fribbles and the Daffodils have produced the Messalinas of our time."—Dr. Brown cor. "They would find in the Roman list both the Scipios."—Id. "He found his wife's clothes on fire, and her just expiring."—Observer cor. "To present you holy, and unblamable, and unreprovable in his sight."—Colossians, i, 22. "Let the distributer do his duty with simplicity; the superintendent, with diligence; him who performs offices of compassion, with cheerfulness."—Stuart cor. "If the crew rail at the master of the vessel, whom will they mind?"—Collier cor. "He having none but them, they having none but him"—Drayton cor.

"Thee, Nature, partial Nature, I arraign; Of thy caprice maternal I complain."—Burns cor.

"Nor weens he who it is, whose charms consume His longing soul, but loves he knows not whom"—Addison cor.

UNDER NOTE I.—OF VERBS TRANSITIVE.

"When it gives that sense, and also connects sentences, it is a conjunction."—L. Murray cor. "Though thou wilt not acknowledge thyself to—be guilty, thou canst not deny the fact stated."—Id. "They specify some object, like many other adjectives, and also connect sentences."—Kirkham cor. "A violation of this rule tends so much to perplex the reader and obscure the sense, that it is safer to err by using too many short sentences."—L. Murray cor. "A few exercises are subjoined to each important definition, for him [the pupil] to practise upon as he proceeds in committing the grammar to memory."—Nutting cor. "A verb signifying an action directly transitive, governs the accusative."—Adam et al. cor. "Or, any word that can be conjugated, is a verb."—Kirkham cor. "In these two concluding sentences, the author, hastening to a close, appears to write rather carelessly."—Dr. Blair cor. "He simply reasons on one side of the question, and then leaves it."—Id." Praise to God teaches us to be humble and lowly ourselves."—Atterbury cor. "This author has endeavoured to surpass his rivals."—R. W. Green cor. "Idleness and pleasure fatigue a man as soon as business."—Webster cor." And, in conjugating any verb,"—or, "And in learning conjugations, you must pay particular attention to the manner in which these signs are applied."—Kirkham cor. "He said Virginia would have emancipated her slaves long ago."—Lib. cor. "And having a readiness"—or, "And holding ourselves in readiness"—or," And being in readiness—to revenge all disobedience."—Bible cor. "However, in these cases, custom generally determines what is right."—Wright cor. "In proof, let the following cases be taken."—Id. "We must marvel that he should so speedily have forgotten his first principles."—Id. "How should we wonder at the expression, 'This is a soft question!' "—Id. "And such as prefer this course, can parse it as a possessive adjective."—Goodenow cor. "To assign all the reasons that induced the author to deviate from other grammarians, would lead to a needless prolixity."—Alexander cor. "The Indicative Mood simply indicates or declares a thing."—L. Murray's Gram., p. 63.

UNDER NOTE II.—OF VERBS INTRANSITIVE.

"In his seventh chapter he expatiates at great length."—Barclay cor. "He quarrels with me for adducing some ancient testimonies agreeing with what I say."—Id. "Repenting of his design."—Hume cor. "Henry knew, that an excommunication could not fail to produce the most dangerous effects."—Id. "The popular lords did not fail to enlarge on the subject,"—Mrs. Macaulay cor. "He is always master of his subject, and seems to play with it:" or,—"seems to sport himself with it."—Blair cor. "But as soon as it amounts to real disease, all his secret infirmities show themselves."—Id. "No man repented of his wickedness."—Bible cor. "Go one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left,"—Id. "He lies down by the river's edge." Or: "He lays himself down on the river's brink"—W. Walker cor. "For some years past, I have had an ardent wish to retire to some of our American plantations."—Cowley cor. "I fear thou wilt shrink from the payment of it."—Ware cor. "We never retain an idea, without acquiring some combination."—Rippingham cor.

"Yet more; the stroke of death he must abide, Then lies he meekly down, fast by his brethren's side." —Milton cor.

UNDER NOTE III.—OF VERBS MISAPPLIED.

"The parliament confiscated the property of all those who had borne arms against the king."—Hume cor. "The practice of confiscating ships that had been wrecked"'—Id. "The nearer his military successes brought him to the throne." Or: "The nearer, through his military successes, he approached the throne."—Id. "In the next example, 'you' represents 'ladies;' therefore it is plural."—Kirkham cor. "The first 'its' stands for 'vale;' the second 'its' represents 'stream'."— Id. "Pronouns do not always prevent the repetition of nouns."—Id. "Very is an adverb of degree; it relates to the adjective good"—Id. "You will please to commit to memory the following paragraph."—Id. "Even the Greek and Latin passive verbs form some of their tenses by means of auxiliaries."—L. Mur. cor. "The deponent verbs in Latin also employ auxiliaries to form several of their tenses."—Id. "I have no doubt he made as wise and true proverbs, as any body has made since."—Id. "Monotonous delivery assumes as many set forms, as ever Proteus did of fleeting shapes."—Kirkham cor. "When words in apposition are uttered in quick succession."—Nixon cor. "Where many such sentences occur in succession."—L. Mur. cor. "Wisdom leads us to speak and do what is most proper."—Blair and L. Murray cor.

"Jul. Art thou not Romeo, and a Montague? Rom. Neither, fair saint, if either thee displease." Or:— "Neither, fair saint, if either thou dislike."—Shak. cor.

UNDER NOTE IV.—OF PASSIVE VERBS.

"To us, too, must be allowed the privilege of forming our own laws." Or: "We too must have the privilege," &c.—L. Murray cor. "For not only is the use of all the ancient poetic feet allowed [to] us," &c.—Id. et al. cor. "By what code of morals is the right or privilege denied me?"—Bartlett cor. "To the children of Israel alone, has the possession of it been denied."—Keith cor. "At York, all quarter was refused to fifteen hundred Jews."—Id. "He would teach the French language in three lessons, provided there were paid him fifty-five dollars in advance."—Prof. Chazotte cor. "And when it was demanded of him by the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come." Or: "And when the Pharisees demanded of him," &c.—Bible cor. "A book has been shown me."—Dr. Campbell cor. "To John Horne Tooke admission was refused, only because he had been in holy orders."—W. Duane cor. "Mr. Horne Tooke having taken orders, admission to the bar was refused him."—Churchill cor. "Its reference to place is disregarded."—Dr. Bullions cor. "What striking lesson is taught by the tenor of this history?"—Bush cor. "No less a sum than eighty thousand pounds had been left him by a friend."—Dr. Priestley cor. "Where there are many things to be done, there must be allowed to each its share of time and labour."—Dr. Johnson cor. "Presenting the subject in a far more practical form, than has heretofore been given it."—Kirkham cor. "If to a being of entire impartiality should be shown the two companies."—Dr. Scott cor. "The command of the British army was offered to him."—Grimshaw cor. "To whom a considerable sum had been unexpectedly left."—Johnson cor. "Whether such a privilege may be granted to a maid or a widow."—Spect. cor. "Happily, to all these affected terms, the public suffrage has been denied."—Campbell cor. "Let the parsing table next be shown him."—Nutting cor. "Then the use of the analyzing table may be explained to him."—Id. "To Pittacus there was offered a great sum of money."—Sanborn cor. "More time for study had been allowed him."—Id. "If a little care were bestowed on the walks that lie between them."—Blair's Rhet., p. 222. "Suppose an office or a bribe be offered me."—Pierpont cor.

"Is then one chaste, one last embrace denied? Shall I not lay me by his clay-cold side?"—Rowe cor.

UNDER NOTE V.—OF PASSIVE VERBS TRANSITIVE.

"The preposition TO is used before nouns of place, when they follow verbs or participles of motion."—Murray et al. cor. "They were not allowed to enter the house."—Mur. cor. "Their separate signification has been overlooked."—Tooke cor. "But, whenever YE is used, it must be in the nominative case, and not in the objective."—Cobbett cor. "It is said, that more persons than one receive handsome salaries, to see that acts of parliament are properly worded."—Churchill cor. "The following Rudiments of English Grammar have been used in the University of Pennsylvania."—Dr. Rogers cor. "It never should be forgotten."— Newman cor. "A very curious fact has been noticed by those expert metaphysicians."—Campbell cor. "The archbishop interfered that Michelet's lectures might be stopped."—The Friend cor. "The disturbances in Gottengen have been entirely quelled."—Daily Adv. cor. "Besides those which are noticed in these exceptions."—Priestley cor. "As one, two, or three auxiliary verbs are employed."—Id. "The arguments which have been used."—Addison cor. "The circumstance is properly noticed by the author."—Blair cor. "Patagonia has never been taken into possession by any European nation."—Cumming cor. "He will be censured no more."—Walker cor. "The thing was to be terminated somehow."—Hunt cor. "In 1798, the Papal Territory was seized by the French."—Pinnock cor. "The idea has not for a moment escaped the attention of the Board."—C. S. Journal cor. "I shall easily be excused from the labour of more transcription."—Johnson cor. "If I may be allowed to use that expression."—Campbell cor. "If without offence I may make the observation."—Id. "There are other characters, which are frequently used in composition."—Mur. et al. cor. "Such unaccountable infirmities might be overcome, in many cases, and perhaps in most."—Beattie cor. "Which ought never to be employed, or resorted to."—Id. "That care may be taken of the widows." Or: "That the widows may be provided for."—Barclay cor. "Other cavils will yet be noticed."—Pope cor. "Which implies, that to all Christians is eternal salvation offered."—West cor. "Yet even the dogs are allowed to eat the crumbs which fall from their master's table."—Campbell cor. "For we say, the light within must be heeded."—Barclay cor. "This sound of a is noticed in Steele's Grammar."—J. Walker cor. "One came to receive ten guineas for a pair of silver buckles."—M. Edgeworth cor. "Let therefore the application of the several questions in the table be carefully shown [to] him."—Nutting cor. "After a few times, it is no longer noticed by the hearers."—Sheridan cor. "It will not admit of the same excuse, nor receive the same indulgence, from people of any discernment."—Id. "Of inanimate things, property may be made." Or: "Inanimate things may be made property;" i.e., "may become property."—Beattie cor.

"And, when some rival bids a higher price, Will not be sluggish in the work, or nice."—Butler cor.

UNDER NOTE VI.—OF PERFECT PARTICIPLES.

"All the words employed to denote spiritual or intellectual things, are in their origin metaphors."—Dr. Campbell cor. "A reply to an argument commonly brought forward by unbelievers."—Dr. Blair cor. "It was once the only form used in the past tenses."—Dr. Ash cor. "Of the points and other characters used in writing."—Id. "If THY be the personal pronoun adopted."—Walker cor. "The Conjunction is a word used to connect [words or] sentences."—Burn cor. "The points which answer these purposes, are the four following."—Harrison cor. "INCENSE signifies perfume exhaled by fire, and used in religious ceremonies."—L. Mur. cor. "In most of his orations, there is too much art; he carries it even to ostentation."—Blair cor. "To illustrate the great truth, so often overlooked in our times."—C. S. Journal cor. "The principal figures calculated to affect the heart, are Exclamation, Confession, Deprecation, Commination, and Imprecation."—Formey cor. "Disgusted at the odious artifices employed by the judge."—Junius cor. "All the reasons for which there was allotted to us a condition out of which so much wickedness and misery would in fact arise."—Bp. Butler cor. "Some characteristical circumstance being generally invented or seized upon."—Ld. Kames cor.

"And BY is likewise used with names that shew The method or the means of what we do."—Ward cor.

UNDER NOTE VII.—OF CONSTRUCTIONS AMBIGUOUS.

"Many adverbs admit of degrees of comparison, as do adjectives."—Priestley cor. "But the author who, by the number and reputation of his works, did more than any one else, to bring our language into its present state, was Dryden."—Blair cor. "In some states, courts of admiralty have no juries, nor do courts of chancery employ any at all."—Webster cor. "I feel grateful to my friend."—Murray cor. "This requires a writer to have in his own mind a very clear apprehension of the object which he means to present to us."—Blair cor. "Sense has its own harmony, which naturally contributes something to the harmony of sound."—Id. "The apostrophe denotes the omission of an i, which was formerly inserted, and which gave to the word an additional syllable."—Priestley cor. "There are few to whom I can refer with more advantage than to Mr. Addison."—Blair cor. "DEATH, (in theology,) is a perpetual separation from God, a state of eternal torments."—Webster cor. "That could inform the traveller as well as could the old man himself!"—O. B. Peirce cor.

UNDER NOTE VIII.—OF YE AND YOU IN SCRIPTURE.

"Ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth."—SCOTT, FRIENDS, and the COMPREHENSIVE BIBLE: Jer., xlix, 3. "Wash you, make you clean."—SCOTT, ALGER, FRIENDS, ET AL.: Isaiah, i, 16. "Strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins."—SCOTT, FRIENDS, ET AL.: Isaiah, xxxii, 11. "Ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me."—SCOTT, BRUCE, and BLAYNEY: Job, xix, 3. "If ye knew the gift of God." Or: "If thou knew the gift of God."—See John, iv, 10. "Depart from me, ye workers of iniquity; I know you not."—Penington cor.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE VI; OF SAME CASES.

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.—OF PROPER IDENTITY.

"Who would not say, 'If it be I,' rather than, 'If it be me?"—Priestley cor. "Who is there? It is I."—Id. "It is he."—Id. "Are these the houses you were speaking of? Yes; they are the same."—Id. "It is not I, that you are in love with."—Addison cor. "It cannot be I."—Swift cor. "To that which once was thou."—Prior cor. "There is but one man that she can have, and that man is myself."—Priestley cor. "We enter, as it were, into his body, and become in some measure he." Or, better:—"and become in some measure identified with him."—A. Smith and Priestley cor. "Art thou proud yet? Ay, that I am not thou."—Shak. cor. "He knew not who they were."—Milnes cor. "Whom do you think me to be?"—Dr. Lowth's Gram., p. 17. "Who do men say that I, the Son of man, am?"—Bible cor. "But who say ye that I am?"—Id. "Who think ye that I am? I am not he."—Id. "No; I am in error; I perceive it is not the person that I supposed it was."—Winter in London cor. "And while it is He that I serve, life is not without value."—Ware cor. "Without ever dreaming it was he."—Charles XII cor. "Or he was not the illiterate personage that he affected to be."—Montgom. cor. "Yet was he the man who was to be the greatest apostle of the Gentiles."—Barclay cor. "Sweet was the thrilling ecstacy; I know not if 'twas love, or thou."—J. Hogg cor. "Time was, when none would cry, that oaf was I."—Dryden cor. "No matter where the vanquished be, or who."—Rowe cor. "No; I little thought it had been he."—Gratton cor. "That reverence, that godly fear, which is ever due to 'Him who can destroy both body and soul in hell.'"—Maturin cor. "It is we that they seek to please, or rather to astonish."—J. West cor. "Let the same be her that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac."—Bible cor. "Although I knew it to be him."—Dickens cor. "Dear gentle youth, is't none but thou?"—Dorset cor. "Who do they say it is?"—Fowler cor.

"These are her garb, not she; they but express Her form, her semblance, her appropriate dress."—More cor.

UNDER NOTE I.—OF THE CASE DOUBTFUL.

"I had no knowledge of any connexion between them."—Col. Stone cor. "To promote iniquity in others, is nearly the same thing, as to be the actors of it ourselves." (That is, "For us to promote iniquity in others, is nearly the same thing as for us to be the actors of it ourselves.")—Murray cor. "It must arise from a delicate feeling in ourselves."—Blair and Murray cor. "Because there has not been exercised a competent physical power for their enforcement."—Mass. Legisl. cor. "PUPILAGE, n. The state of a pupil, or scholar."—Dictionaries cor. "Then the other part, being the definition, would include all verbs, of every description."—Peirce cor. "John's friendship for me saved me from inconvenience."—Id. "William's judgeship"—or, "William's appointment to the office of judge,—changed his whole demeanour."—Id. "William's practical acquaintance with teaching, was the cause of the interest he felt."—Id. "To be but one among many, stifleth the chidings of conscience."—Tupper cor. "As for the opinion that it is a close translation, I doubt not that many have been led into that error by the shortness of it."—Pope cor. "All presumption that death is the destruction of living beings, must go upon the supposition that they are compounded, and therefore discerptible."—Bp. Butler cor. "This argues rather that they are proper names."—Churchill cor. "But may it not be retorted, that this gratification itself, is that which excites our resentment?"—Campbell cor. "Under the common notion, that it is a system of the whole poetical art."—Blair cor. "Whose want of time, or whose other circumstances, forbid them to become classical scholars."—Lit. Jour. cor. "It would prove him not to have been a mere fictitious personage." Or: "It would preclude the notion that he was merely a fictitious personage."—Phil. Mu. cor. "For heresy, or under pretence that they are heretics or infidels."—Oath cor. "We may here add Dr. Horne's sermon on Christ, as being the Object of religious adoration."—Rel. World cor. "To say nothing of Dr. Priestley, as being a strenuous advocate," &c.—Id. "Through the agency of Adam, as being their public head." Or: "Because Adam was their public head."—Id. "Objections against the existence of any such moral plan as this."—Butler cor. "A greater instance of a man being a blockhead."—Spect. cor. "We may insure or promote what will make it a happy state of existence to ourselves."—Gurney cor. "Since it often undergoes the same kind of unnatural treatment."—Kirkham cor. "Their apparent foolishness"—"Their appearance of foolishness"—or, "That they appear foolishness,—is no presumption against this."—Butler cor. "But what arises from them as being offences; i.e., from their liability to be perverted."—Id. "And he went into the house of a certain man named Justus, one that worshiped God."—Acts cor.